Tow much?

Saw this guy cruising down the road today....what do you think happened here? Tried to tow a bit much?

 

Rear ended.

 

Should buff out I guess....

 

Windex in my professional opinion

 

Duct tape n zip ties bra fix em right up.

 

Prolapsed taco

Edit: amazing username for a TRD Pro owner (Pro-lapsed)

 

Looks like he got rearended, I have yet to see a picture of a taco folded from towing yet! I have seenone of both a Colorado and a Ranger folded though...

 

Toyota says this is normal

 

We see these all the time next to the various auto auctions, they'll pull in to neighboring bizs, remove bumpers, daisy chain up a bunch of wrecked but rolling vehicles, and use whatever runs to tow all 2-3 south of the border.... regardless of the size.

 

thats exactly what it reminded me of and was my first thought. Dear end probably makes more sense though as it isn’t a ranger or zr2.

 

Def rear ended there is damage back there.

 

You say it's "definitely" rear ended, however, there's no damage to the taillights or tailgate. When I've seen rear accidents with these Tacoma's, usually the bed gets pushed forward into the cab and the taillights and tailgate get smashed. The bumper doesn't really "stop" the impact from traveling forward. It's also suspicious that the bumper has been folded downward 90°. While it's "possible" that this was caused by a rear end accident, I'm also thinking overloading the hitch could be an equally possible cause. Pretty easy to exceed that tongue weight, especially with a dynamic load when offroad.

 

Did you see Sonic in the passenger seat? If so it was Dr. Robotnik's droids

 

Looks right... crown side facing up

 

This is how you improve your breakover angle ... but reduce your departure angle

 

The best mod if you do a lot of parallel parking.

 

It's the new version of Georgia squat

 

That's hard to look at

 

maybe he did a sweet jump

 

Except that the rear bumper is folded completely under the truck. If it was a low front end car and he had a hitch installed it totally could have done this. When I got rear ended in my 18 I had my hitch on and it did nothing to my tail gate or lights.